A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class.
In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.
Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.
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